I've got a video that I exported out of Premiere and the size is 1440 x 1080. When it plays in DIVX player and Quicktime, however, it displays at the wrong aspect ratio and I have to manually change it so everything doesn't look all squished. I'm looking to upload this so any suggestions on how to make sure my upload doesn't look bad?

Dell is perfect and does the job, go talk with Dell and complain why you dislike Dell, or PM it to me, you simply have no reason though.

Dells are like Ricers. Ugly trinkets with ugly cases and accessories using bottom of the barrel shitty cheap Chinese 2 cent parts.

When dell wants to build a new system type, they put the motherboard, RAM, Hard drive and other components out to bid. Basically whichever OEM bids the lowest, they use them. The subsequent parts are then usually extremely stripped down versions of retail channel parts using shoddy components that are known to be bad or not have a long shelf life, and the consumers get screwed over in the end.

I don't know if you remember the fiasco in 2007 when dell was forced to replace tens of thousands of their machines on their own books because they sold them with knowingly bad capacitors that blew out and caused no end of trouble for the consumers that bought them. I was contracted to do around 2,500 of them myself which took about 2.5 months.

Dells are like Ricers. Ugly trinkets with ugly cases and accessories using bottom of the barrel shitty cheap Chinese 2 cent parts.

When dell wants to build a new system type, they put the motherboard, RAM, Hard drive and other components out to bid. Basically whichever OEM bids the lowest, they use them. The subsequent parts are then usually extremely stripped down versions of retail channel parts using shoddy components that are known to be bad or not have a long shelf life, and the consumers get screwed over in the end.

I don't know if you remember the fiasco in 2007 when dell was forced to replace tens of thousands of their machines on their own books because they sold them with knowingly bad capacitors that blew out and caused no end of trouble for the consumers that bought them. I was contracted to do around 2,500 of them myself which took about 2.5 months.

Bottom line, Dell is shit.

Oh really? Because every person I know who owns a Dell other than myself owns one from 7 years ago. And they all still work with little or no hardware failure.

Bottom line, IF YOU FUCK AROUND LIKE AN IDIOT, EXPECT TO BREAK THINGS.

The problem is pixel aspect ratio or PAR. Typically, we take for granted that computer screens operate with a 1.000 Square Pixel aspect ratio. Broadcast and other video signals, such as standard definition and widescreen, however, do not. I presume the OP is working with some footage shot on HDV camcorder.

Take for instance PAL widescreen. The dimensions of standard PAL signal is 720x576, the dimensions of widescreen PAL signal is also 720x576. What makes a video signal widescreen, however, is the pixel aspect ratio. 4:3 PAL has a pixel aspect ratio of 1.0926, whereas 16:9 PAL has a pixel aspect ratio of 1.4568. This allows for a wider picture to be constructed from the same dimensions (a DVD player for instance, will stretch it out to its correct size - this allows a wider/bigger picture to be contained in the same dimensions)

1440x1080 is 4:3 when it has a pixel aspect ratio of 1.000, however, 1440x1080 is 16:9 when the pixel aspect ratio is set to 1.333 (HDV), and is equivalent to 1920x1080 (with a pixel aspect ratio of 1.000 square)

Here's the HD preset in Premiere, it has a 1.333 pixel aspect ratio set:

When you export, there's two things you can do:

a) Set the pixel aspect ratio to 1.333. Some codecs don't support pixel aspect ratios, and some players don't correctly display them

b) Set the pixel aspect ratio to 1.000 and the video dimensions to 1920x1080. Probably the better way to go.